THE STONES IN THE DIRT WERE NEVER MEANT FOR THE AUDIENCE
The dinner was quiet, the kind of stillness that only happens when people have known each other for over fifty years. Mike Farrell sat next to Alan Alda,…
THE DAY MAXWELL KLINGER’S DRESS FINALLY DECLARED WAR ON THE SET
I was at dinner the other night with some old friends from the neighborhood, just a casual evening, when the conversation turned to our old jobs. One of…
THE DAY RADAR LEFT THE 4077TH AND NOBODY EVEN LOOKED UP
The room was quiet, the kind of stillness that only exists between people who have known each other for half a century. Mike Farrell sat in a low-slung…
THE COMMANDER OF CHAOS… BUT THE SURGICAL GLOVES WON THE WAR
McLean Stevenson leaned back in his chair, the studio lights reflecting off his glasses as he looked at the young actor sitting across from him. This was during…
THE DAY THE WEDDING DRESS TRIED TO KILL MAXWELL KLINGER
I was sitting on this panel at a convention a few years back, looking out at a sea of MAS*H hats and olive drab T-shirts, and this young…
TV’S MOST POMPOUS ARISTOCRAT… BUT HIS TRUE HEART WAS HIDDEN
When the black sedan pulled up to the set of the 4077th, the cast of the most popular show in America didn’t know what to expect. Larry Linville…
LORETTA SWIT HEARD THE CHOPPER… AND SUDDENLY THE MOUNTAINS WERE REAL AGAIN.
The sun was beginning to dip behind the jagged ridge of the Malibu hills. It was a quiet afternoon, the kind where the wind carries the scent of…
GARY BURGHOFF’S FINAL MOMENT ON MAS*H HAD NO SCRIPT.
The lights in the studio had dimmed, leaving only the soft glow of the monitor screens in the background. Loretta Swit sat across from Gary Burghoff, the years…
JAMIE FARR RECALLS THE DISASTROUS MOMENT THE KLINGER WEDDING DRESS REBELLED
Interviewer: We are sitting here today with a man who spent eleven years trying to get a Section Eight discharge in some of the most elaborate outfits ever…
THE WORLD KNEW HIS ARISTOCRATIC REFINEMENT… BUT HE HID HIS TRUE SELF
David Ogden Stiers was a man of immense presence. On screen, he was the quintessential blue-blood, a man of operas and Harvard degrees, someone who seemed to look…